[rescue] Perverse Question

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:02:39PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> Like Dave, George, and I have said repeatedly, 64MB of 1996 RAM is 64MB
> of 2003 RAM.
[...]
> So, why was 64MB of 1996 RAM "living large", but 256MB of
> 2003 RAM "just getting by"?  It's sure not because the software is 3 or
> 4 times -better- than it was seven years ago.


Well, a cynical person [insert innocent look here] might speculate that
Intel releases faster processors to enable Microsoft to write more
bloated code, and Microsoft releases ever-more-bloated code that
requires ever-more-copious amounts of RAM to make sure people keep
buying ever-faster Intel processors ....


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